ONS consultations closed during 2012

ONS statistical user consultations closed in 2012, including the consultation documents and summaries of the findings:

• Improvement to the Estimation of Employment in Public Sector Education in England

• Integrated Household Survey datasets

  ONS Social Survey has previously released an annual Integrated Household Survey (IHS) experimental dataset four times per year and are proposing to reduce this to one a year

• Consultation on accounting for the value of nature in the UK

  Natural assets and the services they provide are part of our nation's wealth, and therefore it is important to measure them. This consultation outllines proposals for making progress in the UK and seeks views on them.

• National Statistician's consultation on options for improving the Retail Prices Index

  Consultation on amending the way the Retail Prices Index (RPI) is constructed at the lowest level of aggregation, October to November 2012

• Consultation on the Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics

  The future of the Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics once all the data is available with the Statistical Bulletin, three days earlier

• Integrated Household Survey datasets

  ONS Social Survey has previously released an annual Integrated Household Survey (IHS) experimental dataset four times per year and are proposing to reduce this to one a year

• Consultation on accounting for the value of nature in the UK

  Natural assets and the services they provide are part of our nation's wealth, and therefore it is important to measure them. This consultation outllines proposals for making progress in the UK and seeks views on them.

• Consultation on the recommended method of reflecting owner occupiers' housing costs in a new additional measure of consumer price inflation, and the strategy for Consumer Price statistics

  Consultation on the recommended method of reflecting owner occupiers' housing costs in a new additional measure of consumer price inflation, and the strategy for Consumer Price statistics

• Consultation on smoothing and commuting adjustments in Regional Accounts

  Consultation to gather and assess user opinions on the changes proposed following a methodological review of smoothing and commuting adjustments in the compilation of regional Gross Value Added (GVA) and regional Gross Disposable Household Income (GDHI)

• Consultation on International Migration Statistical Outputs

  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is reviewing its international migration outputs to ensure they are coherent and continue to meet user needs

• Beyond 2011 - Public Consultation

  The ONS User Needs Consultation to ascertain statistical users' needs and priorities.

• Proposed Domains and Headline Indicators for Measuring National Well-being

  ONS consultation on first set of proposed domains and measures for National Well-being

• Replacing Time Series on Life Expectancy

  A proposal to replace the time series on life expectancy by Registrar General's Social Class with the time series life expectancy by National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

• Public consultation on the future of the Construction Statistics Annual publication

  Comments invited on proposals to improve the construction statistics annual

• Ceasing production of rolling-year interregional migration estimates

• Inheritance Tax Survey of Users’ Views

• Proposed changes to publication cycle of six Indirect Taxes National Statistics Bulletins.

• Assets liabilities and transactions in finance leasing (SDQ7)

  Comments are invited on the proposal to suspend the publication of the output: Assets, Liabilities and Transactions in Finance Leasing, Factoring and Credit Granting (SDQ7)

• Public consultation on new orders TOPSI publication and the Monthly Business Survey (MBS)

  Consultation on new orders and export new orders in the monthly Turnover and Orders in the Production and Services Industries publication and Monthly Business Survey.